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Free typographic screensavers from Parachute

Ninja July 2nd, 2008

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Parachute is offering up 6, fun, and free typographic screensavers designed by award-winning designer Babis Touglis for both Mac and PC computers. Download here.

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Centro Pro ftw

Ninja May 28th, 2008

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Congratulations to the Parachute type foundry for winning an European Design Award for the Centro Pro typeface families!

Centro Pro was designed by Panos Vassiliou, and you can view his sketches and design process here.

PF Centro Pro is a type system, not just a type family. This large series of 40 fonts with 1519 characters each, is composed of 3 superfamilies (serif, sans and slab), includes true italics and supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It is an almost ‘invisible’ typeface which has legibility as its main attribute and is ideal for a wide range of design works. It does not attract any unnecessary attention, but rather serves its purpose. A rare case of contemporary type family working across three alphabets, Centro Pro meets an ever-growing demand for such typefaces among pan-European companies and institutions.
- European Design Awards jury

Meet the Centro Pro family.
Purchasing links are available after each image.

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+ PF Centro Serif Pro

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+ PF Centro Sans Pro

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+ PF Centro Slab Pro

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Champion Script Pro

Ninja November 9th, 2007

Ninja says

I’ve been searching for scripty type for yet another wedding invitation. As much as I do enjoy it, next year, I’m going to take a break, & I won’t be designing any invites. Whew. ^__^

My favorite find (thus far) is the lovely Open Type PF Champion Script Pro. This typeface debuted at the ICTVC (International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication) in June of 2007, and it has been dubbed “the most powerful script ever made.” Champion Script’s forms are based on 18th century master calligrapher Joseph Champion’s writings.

You can check out the making of Champion Script Pro here.

Take a look:

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Meet Champion Script Pro.

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Look at some of her pretty frames & ornaments.

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Watch her gylphs change (automatically).

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See her in Greek.

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And Cyrillic.

She’s a beaut with:

+ 2 weights
+ multilingual support—Latin, Greek, Greek Poly, Eastern European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Turkish, Vietnamese
+ 4253 glyphs per font
+ alternatives & glyphs that change automatically according to their combination with neighboring letters
+ 117 ornaments/frames
+ 5 sets of swashed capitals & small caps

Champion Script goes for:
EUR 175.00 (family)
EUR 95.00 per weight

Purchasing Link
+ Purchase Champion Script from the Parachute type foundry

Related Link
+ Visit Parachute Fonts’s blog

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